Virtual machines (VMs) are quickly becoming the industry standard in IT
infrastructures. IT managers find themselves with hundreds, if not thousands of
VMs or physical machine hosts in their infrastructures. VMs can be added
quickly, making it necessary to plan for the addition of virtual machines to the
physical machines that host them. This can be a challenge for administrators. IT
managers lack the required tools to accurately optimize CPU, memory, and network
consumption, or project storage requirements. Monitoring virtual machine
environments with Foglight™ Resource Optimizer simplifies the optimization
process, providing waste-finding and right-sizing functionality for virtualized
environments.

These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and
other important information about the 5.7.3 release of the Foglight Resource
Optimizer. Review all sections before starting the installation.

Disable VMware-Optimizer-5_6_16_1.car before upgrading to
Optimizer-5_7_3.car and VMware-Optimizer-5_7_3.car.

VFOG-12221

When reclaiming selected resources based on the
Optimizer recommendations, these entries are removed from the
recommendations list while the reclaim operation is in progress.
When the reclaim operation completes, these recommendations
re-appear on the list for a short time (less than 5 minutes). These
recommendations are finally removed from the list only after new
data has been retrieved (in next 5 minutes).

VFOG-12010

SAS: Recalculating results takes a long time
when changing settings for Zombie VMs.

VFOG-11968

Support resize for hosts using GRUB2 boot
loader.

VFOG-11203

Remove platforms that have reached end of life
and add support to new releases.

VFOG-11144

Support disk resize on disk without partition.

VFOG-10712

Adding constraints on an ESX Host does not
change the recommendations for the VMs residing within that host.

VFOG-9477

When installing the CommonAnalytics-5_6_16.car
cartridge, a lot of warnings are reported in the Management Server log
file. These warnings refer to deprecated properties, and can be ignored.

When reclaiming selected resources based on the
Optimizer recommendations, these entries are removed from the
recommendations list while the reclaim operation is in progress.
When the reclaim operation completes, these recommendations
re-appear on the list for a short time (less than 5 minutes). These
recommendations are finally removed from the list only after new
data has been retrieved (in next 5 minutes).

On the Cartridge Inventory
dashboard, install the following cartridge files. Do not remove the older
version of these cartridges. Install the new versions over the older
versions. The sequence of cartridge installation is
important because of their dependencies:

DRP-5_7_3.car

OptimizerAutomation-5_7_3.car

CommonAnalytics-5_7_3.car

Virtual-VMware-5_7_3.carNote: After
installing the Virtual-VMware-5_7_3.car cartridge, existing
vCenter agents (VC agents) must be updated using the Update
Agent button in the VMware Environment > Administration
tab.

Virtual-VMware-Admin-5_7_3.car

VMware-Optimizer-5_7_3.car

Optimizer-5_7_3.car

ChangeAnalyzer-5_7_3.car (recommended)

If configuration has been previously edited to support larger
environments, please refer to Foglight for VMware Release
Notes to restore the configuration.

For cartridge installation instructions, see “Installing Foglight cartridges” in the
Foglight Administration and Configuration Help.

On the Cartridge Inventory
dashboard, install the following cartridge files. Do not remove the older
version of these cartridges. Install the new versions over the older
versions. The sequence of cartridge installation is
important because of their dependencies:

DRP-5_7_3.car

OptimizerAutomation-5_7_3.car

CommonAnalytics-5_7_3.car

Virtual-HyperV-5_7_3.carNote: After
installing the Virtual-HyperV-5_7_3.car cartridge, existing
HyperV agents must be updated using the Update
Agent button in the HyperV Environment > Administration
tab.

Optimizer-5_7_3.car

Virtual-HyperV-Admin-5_7_3.car

HyperV-Optimizer-5_7_3.car

For cartridge installation instructions, see “Installing Foglight cartridges” in the
Foglight Administration and Configuration Help.

Foglight Resource Optimizer 5.7.3 can be installed on Foglight and comes
installed on Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition
8.5.5.

For information about
system requirements for this release, see section "Hardware requirements and
guidelines" in the System Requirements and Platform Support
Guide for the product you have installed.

Before installing Foglight Resource Optimizer, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:

Platform, Memory and Hard Disk Space

The platform, memory, and hard disk space requirements for the
monitored servers must match the Agent Manager requirements. For
complete information, see the System Requirements and Platform
Support Guide.

Operating System

Foglight Resource Optimizer can be
installed on any supported Foglight Management Server or Foglight for
Virtualization, Enterprise Edition configuration.

This section provides information about problems that you might encounter
while monitoring your environment with Foglight Resource Optimizer, and describes the
solutions available to troubleshoot these problems.

Foglight includes a licensing capability that restricts access to those
features that are defined in the license. Any Management Server installation
requires a license that grants access to server-specific parts of the browser
interface and the features associated with them. Foglight cartridges are also
license-protected. While some cartridges are covered by the base Foglight
license (such as Foglight Agent Manager cartridges and Foglight for
Infrastructure), others may require an additional license. Foglight Resource
Optimizer is covered by the base Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise
license.

On the Cartridge Inventory
dashboard, install the following cartridge files. Do not remove the older
version of these cartridges. Install the new versions over the older
versions. The sequence of cartridge installation is
important because of their dependencies:

DRP-5_7_3.car

OptimizerAutomation-5_7_3.car

CommonAnalytics-5_7_3.car

Virtual-VMware-5_7_3.carNote: After
installing the Virtual-VMware-5_7_3.car cartridge, existing
vCenter agents (VC agents) must be updated using the Update
Agent button in the VMware Environment > Administration
tab.

Virtual-VMware-Admin-5_7_3.car

VMware-Optimizer-5_7_3.car

Optimizer-5_7_3.car

ChangeAnalyzer-5_7_3.car (recommended)

If configuration has been previously edited to support larger
environments, please refer to Foglight for VMware Release
Notes to restore the configuration.

For cartridge installation instructions, see “Installing Foglight cartridges” in the
Foglight Administration and Configuration Help.

To install Foglight Resource Optimizer for Hyper-V Environments version
5.7.3:

Download the following packages from Quest
Support Portal:

Foglight for Hyper-V version 5.7.3 (which includes the
DRP-5_7_3.car, Virtual-HyperV-5_7_3.car, and
Virtual-HyperV-Admin-5_7_3.car cartridge files)

On the Cartridge Inventory
dashboard, install the following cartridge files. Do not remove the older
version of these cartridges. Install the new versions over the older
versions. The sequence of cartridge installation is
important because of their dependencies:

DRP-5_7_3.car

OptimizerAutomation-5_7_3.car

CommonAnalytics-5_7_3.car

Virtual-HyperV-5_7_3.carNote: After
installing the Virtual-HyperV-5_7_3.car cartridge, existing
Hyper-V agents must be updated using the Update
Agent button in the HyperV Environment > Administration
tab.

Optimizer-5_7_3.car

Virtual-HyperV-Admin-5_7_3.car

HyperV-Optimizer-5_7_3.car

For cartridge installation instructions, see “Installing Foglight cartridges” in the
Foglight Administration and Configuration Help.

Configuration prerequisites

If you plan to reclaim resources that require a VM shutdown (for example,
Change CPU or Memory Allocation, Power Off VM, etc.), and there is no
Integration Service on the targeted VM, save all data on that VM before
performing the reclaim action.

VMs without Integration Services cannot be shut down successfully.
Instead, the VMs are turned off, and all unsaved data is lost.

Prerequisites for VMs without VMware Tools (VMware® environments)

If you plan to reclaim resources that require a VM shutdown (for example,
Change CPU or Memory Allocation, Power Off VM, etc.), and there are no
VMware Tools installed on the targeted VM, save all data on that VM before
performing the reclaim action.

VMs without VMware Tools cannot be shut down successfully.
Instead, the VMs are turned off, and all unsaved data is lost.

Globalization

This section contains information about installing and operating this product
in non-English configurations, such as those needed by customers outside of
North America. This section does not replace the materials about supported
platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.

This release is Unicode-enabled and supports any character set. In this
release, all product components should be configured to use the same or
compatible character encodings and should be installed to use the same locale
and regional options. This release is targeted to support operations in the
following regions: North America, Western Europe and Latin America, Central and
Eastern Europe, Far-East Asia, Japan.

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